RESPONSIBILITY AT APETIT
At Apetit, responsibility runs through the entire value chain, from field to fork. For us, a responsible food supply chain means sustainable practices throughout our operations and safe, high-quality products made from ingredients that are grown sustainably.
In our own operations, we focus on reducing our climate impact, especially by investing in renewable energy solutions and developing energy and material efficiency.
In our products, we rely on domestic plant-based food solutions and their development, growing a product range based on local fish, and sustainable and appropriate packaging solutions.
Climate impacts of food
Primary production and the food industry carry out continuous development work to reduce the environmental and climate impacts of food production. Food production and food consumption cause approximately one fifth of the carbon footprint, or climate impacts, of all consumption. Plant-based products have generally low carbon footprint.
Apetit determined the environmental footprint of its favourite products. The study analysed the carbon footprint, eutrophication effect and water footprint of the products.
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Sustainable food choices
Apetit determined the environmental footprint of our selected products. This is how one meal’s climate impacts arise – a carbon footprint of 0.46 kg of CO2 equivalent with negative eutrophication effect.
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At 2025
Sustainable actions
– 81 percent of the energy was from renewable sources.
– The share of recyclable packagings was 99 per cent in Apetit products: Apetit has changed all the packaging materials of Apetit products sold through retail channels to recyclable.
– In 2025, 10 % of the fish we used was local domestic fish.
– Research including cultivation and variety tests at the Räpi experimental farm continued, especially with studies on different plant varieties and plant protection methods.
– Project activity and cultivation tests by RypsiRapsi-foorumi to increase domestic oilseed production
Apetit's corporate responsibility report
Apetit’s integrated annual and responsibility report
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Well-being from vegetables
We want to promote sustainable food choices: we provide sustainably grown and prepared foods and raw materials, and we develop a value chain where people and the environment do well. About 95 percent of the raw materials used by Apetit for its frozen products are of vegetable-based.
Every year, about 150 Finnish Apetit contract growers produce millions kilos of clean, responsibly grown food for us. In 2024, 85% of all the food raw-materials we used in our frozen products were domestic.
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Climate impacts
Apetit’s climate target was to reduce its own emissions (Scopes 1 and 2) by 75% by 2025 compared to the 2019 baseline year. The target was clearly exceeded, with total emissions decreasing by 80%.
Apetit’s climate work continues, and during 2025 Apetit committed to setting science‑based emission reduction targets.
In 2025, Apetit Group achieved the Management level and a B rating in the CDP’s assessment of climate change and B- for water responsibility.
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Räpi experimental farm
The aim of the Räpi experimental farm’s R&D activities is to develop natural cultivation methods that also support the preservation of biodiversity on Finnish fields where field vegetables are grown.
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Apetit’s corporate responsibility emphasises climate-responsible everyday actions as we build a sustainable food system through various value chains. Indeed, sustainable value chains is one of the strategic focus areas in Apetit’s strategy.
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Corporate responsibility programme
we want to promote sustainable food choices: we offer sustainably grown and produced food products and ingredients while developing a value chain that supports the well-being of people and the environment.
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Partner for the Finnish farmer
Apetit is strongly integrated to Finnish primary production. Apetit wants to be the best partner to Finnish grower both in oilseed products and frozen foods and vegetables. Agriculture and the food industry provide employment to roughly 340,000 people in Finland.
More domestic fish
In 2025, 10 % of the fish we used was local domestic fish. The amount of phosphorus removed from the nutrient chain by two bags of Apetit Baltic Sea Fish Fingers would grow roughly one kilo of algae in the sea if left in the water.
Sustainable packaging solutions
Apetit has changed all the packaging materials of Apetit products sold through retail channels to recyclable. In 2025, the packaging of Apetit Potato&Soup Vegetables, among others, was replaced with recyclable material.
The cardboard used in consumer packaging is PEFC-certified.
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Personnel
– At the end of 2025, Apetit had 372 employees, all of whom worked in Finland.
– Apetit’s personnel strategy focuses on responsible leadership based on the company’s values and corporate culture, ensuring the availability of labour by focusing on retention and attraction factors, improving employees’ occupational well-being and ability to cope with the demands of work by using a wide range of work ability management methods, and the continuous development of strategic and critical competencies.
Safety at work
– All occupational accidents and severe near misses in Apetit Group are investigated internally.
– Apetit seeks to reduce the risk of accidents and illnesses in a proactive manner, especially through appropriate job-specific instructions and personal protective equipment.
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